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Sport
  
High jump

Club
  
University of Oxford


Olympic finals
  
1928

Name
  
Colin Gordon

Colin Gordon (athlete)

Born
  
24 December 1907
Bath Settlement, Upper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana

Died
  
22 August 1960 (aged 52) Adelaide, Australia

Colin Ernest Sutherland Gordon (24 December 1907 – 22 August 1960) was a high jumper from British Guiana (present-day Guyana). He competed for Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished in 17th place. At the 1930 Empire Games he represented British Guiana and won the silver medal.

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Gordon worked as a teacher in Canada for a year and in 1931 moved to Geelong Grammar School in Australia. During World War II he served as a Wing Commander with the Royal Australian Air Force. After demobilisation he became Headmaster of St. Peter’s College in Adelaide, Australia, where he worked until his death in 1960.

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